Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa exhibited political immaturity and naivety when he asked Special Prosecutor Nominee, Martin Amidu a question based on a book written by former Attorney General, Obed Asamoah.
According to him, that move by Hon. Ablakwa was not smart and could only come from an inexperienced politician.
The MP who’s a member of the Appointment Committee quoting from page 465 of a book authored by former Attorney General, Obed Asamoah under who Mr Amidu worked which is titled “Political History of Ghana 1950-2013, the Experience of a Non-Conformist”, asked the latter what he made of a damning verdict passed on him by his former boss when his choice as a running mate to candidate Mills was described as “unproductive move” and a candidate who will not be beneficial to the ticket.
In response, Mr Amidu known for being blunt said “Mr Chairman in the first place Dr Asamoah is not my boss, he did not pay my bills through the law school. He was called to the Bar, I was called to the Bar. He didn’t appoint me Deputy Attorney General, I was appointed Deputy Attorney General before he came there and I served under Aikins, Nana Tandoh, Mr Forson came for six months before he was asked to act, and we are colleagues. Except that he was Attorney General and I was the deputy and therefore I knew my place and worked with him, that doesn’t make him my boss. You’re reading a self serving book, in which he wanted to be the Vice Presidential candidate, he was by-passed, the Presidential candidate saw his deputy more competent and excellent than him.”
“…In any case the law reports demonstrates that while he was doing that, I was going to court. He didn’t train me, and if you say he’s erudite, that’s your comment. I regret that you brought his book and you want to knock my head against his. In his recent interview he described me as a man of honesty, but you see, you people you’ll collapse your old people by reading these things and I’ll react this way. Dr Asamoah calls me, even when I was Attorney General and he was accused, he called me, Amidu, did this happen? and I told him it didn’t happen. So I’m on good terms with him, but because of vetting we’re doing this, I don’t think it’s good. I would have let the question pass but the public will understand it otherwise.
But speaking on Peace FM Wednesday, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako stated that there was no basis for Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa to have asked such a question.
Now someone decides to bring it on that platform and amplify it at the level of the Appointment Committee, it gives it more currency. The human element in Amidu was brought to the fore, you the questioner, what was Ablakwa’s motive in asking the question, what was the value of that question relative to the purpose of that committee”?
“Bringing the issue about the Obed Asamoah’s book was not a smart attempt, why bring that thing there? Unless you’re too politically inexperienced and naive I see no need for that issue to have been raised on that particular platform at that material moment. You expected the man to just clap for you? Someone has written a book which will be around for the next thousand years commenting on someone’s character, the person hasn’t even read the book and so has not done a rejoinder, but that sticking thing in the book is out there.
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Intellectually bankrupt. Why is he even on that committee and that Suhuyini boy too. A political radio show host. NDC don't you have smart guys in your party? How can a schoolboy Ablakwa be vetting an astute and established lawyer like Amidu? It's preposterous.
i dont know what that guy is even doing in parliament but in the ndc anyone can be anywhere in politics. this guy is one of the dumbest ed10>ts I have ever seen. i dont know how he managed to get through legon bcos he was flunking left right center. but at the end here we are. these are the ple making laws for us. thanks to the wisdom of Mr. Amidu he really made him looked stup1?d.
They just could not match Alamisi. Ala ooooo Alamisi I yada you.
Even considered, this was a very long time ago. So once someone whom you ever worked with held an opinion of you that has to dictate everything about your national life? That question was very preposterous. Lyndon B. Johnson once said: 'If two people agree on everything, then you can be sure only one of them is doing the thinking'. Knowing Martin amidu as an astute lawyer who abides by the rule of law and is willing to stand for and defend his convictions I am sure he might have had some disagreements with Dr obed asamoah in the course of work but that is normal in every office. Even you ablakwa the chairman of the appointment committee reprimanded you some how during the vetting yesterday when you raised certain objections about certain things you did not like . do you think it would be fair to question your competence as a result of that disagreement if you were ever to find it surface anywhere you are being considered for appointment? Back to the substantive issue of the passage you quoted from dr asamoah's book. Martin amidu was being considered for veep candidature-a position dr asamoah was also interested in. Infact, he was so obsessed with it that when he was by-passed he broke away to form his own party which spectacularly collapsed! That is the mark of a 'productive' person who would be 'beneficial' to a veep ticket! Yet he could not nurture a party he founded!So it was absolutely right for martin amidu to say dr. asamoah's book was a self-serving expose rather than an accurate description of martin amidu.The matter under consideration yesterday was whether martin amidu can do the job and not whether his former boss thinks he can do the job. So indeed,in the context of the matter under consideration the question by ablakwa was not only naive but absolutely irrelevant. His own party are alleged to have said that they have passed martin amidu before his vetting yesterday so why ask such questions?
A hall mark of babies with sharp teeth!
Not only politically inexperience, also inexperience in all walks of lives, has he contributed to social security before he became deputy minister?, in my area I am coming from, this guy will never even get assembly man lest mp. Tweaaaaaa. In a village where are no pigs, if they see any sicked sheep they guess it fatty built sheep.